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Features: DVD
Celebrate The 75th Anniversary of one of the Classics That Started It All!2-Disc 75th Anniversary EditionStunning Digitally Remastered PictureAll-New Bonus Materials Including Documentaries, And Much More!System Requirements:Running Time: 75 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE
"...the definitive characterization of history's most famous vampire." Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com
"...a motion picture for people who love motion pictures..." John J. Puccio, DVD Town
"Still the best American take on the infamous bloodsucker." Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com
Editor's Note
This is the first screen version of Bram Stoker's famous tale based on the smash hit stage production. Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) arrives in London and immediately works to enrapture and transform into vampires young Lucy Weston (Frances Dade) and her friend Mina Seward (Helen Chandler). After he succeeds in turning Lucy, and Mina's health suddenly deteriorates, Mina's father (Herbert Bunston), calls in a specialist, Professor Abraham Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan). Van Helsing quickly recognizes Dracula's vampirism, and sets about saving Mina (and in the process, becomes Dracula's archenemy). The film, arguably the most influential of the legend's film versions, launched Lugosi's career in horror movies and forever invited vampires across Hollywood's threshold.
| Features | Also Includes The 1931 Spanish Version Of Dracula | | Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo | | Feature Audio Commentary With Film Historian David J. Shal | | Feature Audio Commentary With Steve Haberman, Screenwriter Of Dracula: Dead & Loving It | | Featurettes: Lugosi - The Dark Prince, The Road To Dracula, Universal Horror & Monster Tracks | | Interactive Menus | | Introduction To The Spanish Version Of Dracula By Lupita Tovar Kohner | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Poster Montage | | Scene Selection | | Score By Philip Glass Performed By The Kronos Quartet | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 9/26/2006 |
| Running Time: 75 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1931 | | Catalog ID: 31022 | | UPC: 00025193102225 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: Hungarian | | Available Audio Tracks: English, Hungarian | | Video: B&W |
Aspect Ratio | | Standard 1.33:1 [4:3] |
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| | Professional Reviews | Chicago Sun-Times
"...It is Lugosi's performance, and the cinematography of Karl Freund that make Tod Browning's film such an influential Hollywood picture..." 09/19/1999 p.5Total Film
"...Where this version really scores is in its sheer strangeness..." 10/01/1999 p.102 ReelViews 8 of 10
70 years after its first release, Dracula remains one of the most instantly recognizable screen titles. As is often the case with pioneers, it is ragged around the edges, but the film's weaknesses are not enough to prevent it from being appreciated. Dracula deserves its status as a classic. - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
Certainly it is Lugosi's performance, and the cinematography of Karl Freund, that make Tod Browning's film such an influential Hollywood picture...Is the 1931 ``Dracula'' still a terrifying film, or has it become a period piece? The ``most chilling, genuinely frightening film ever made,'' vows the reference series Cinebooks. Perhaps that was true in 1931, but today I think the movie is interesting mostly for technical reasons--for the stylized performances, the photography, the sets. - Roger Ebert
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